Files not touched in weeks got truncated after a crash

[Guido Winkelmann]

On Wednesday 13 November 2013 16:51:44 Roger Willcocks wrote:
>Syncing won't protect you from hardware failures.

Obviously not, but it might - should, I would argue - lessen the impact of 
one.

>Without more details about what happened to the external RAID and what
>you did to recover it's impossible to answer your question.

Well, if I understood the admin correctly, the backplane in the RAID in 
question died, probably from a short-circuit on the board. (But I think that 
latter part was just speculation.) He removed the harddisks from that 
enclosure, put them into another one of the same make and model, mirrored over 
the configuration from the broken to the working one and reattached it to the 
server. The server was shut down in the mean time.

	Guido